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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 by Roderick MacFarquhar; Royal Institute of International Affairs.; Columbia University. East Asian Institute.; Columbia University. Research Institute on Communist Affairs is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Why did Mao Tse-tung launch the cultural revolution which almost destroyed all that he had worked so long and so hard to create? The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: The Great Leap Forward 1958-1960 is the second volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s in order to answer that question. This volume tells the story of the Great Leap Forward. Mao's utopian attempt to propel China economically and socially into the twenty-first century by mobilizing his nation's greatest asset: its disciplined manpower. The effect produced economic disaster and political dissension, and helped to precipitate the Sino-Soviet split. Today's leaders point to it as the beginning of two decades of national trauma which ended only after the death Mao and the purge of the "gang of four". Those leaders have recently authorized the release of a mass of new documentation in the form of political reminiscences, economic statistics, and leaders' speeches. This volume is the first scholarly work to use the new material comprehensively, weaving it into the narrative along with the contemporary record and the re

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Author

Roderick MacFarquhar; Royal Institute of International Affairs.; Columbia University. East Asian Institute.; Columbia University. Research Institute on Communist Affairs

Publisher

Published for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the East Asian Institute of Columbia University, and the Research Institute on International Change of Columbia University by Columbia University Press

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192149954

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Asian History